Writing for Golf Advisor, Jason Scott Deegan recently offered some amusing observations after posing the question: “is your country club too stuffy for golf’s 21st century?”

If the March winds are indicators, prepare for some serious April showers. The winds, the golf course and Clear Creek were big winners in the District 24-6A Preview/Wildcat Invitational tournament last weekend at Moody Gardens Golf Course.

Gather ‘round golfers wherever you are and make note that the time change is not very far.

One of the greatest rewards from writing this column is that, as Forrest Gump’s mother said about a box of chocolates, one never knows what one will get. OK, Forest said it better.

Unique swings, peculiar swings, inimitable swings and ugly swings are on display at courses all over the planet, and are not unusual among the best golfers in the world.

Golf courses are getting longer. Golfers are hitting the ball farther than ever before. Golf balls are getting longer-and smarter. Golf clubs are becoming engineering works of art. Longer, farther, higher, faster-and smarter. And my cardiologist says that if I follow a certain regimen, I wil…

Chris Kirk is a successful professional golfer who has earned more money than most of us will earn in a lifetime. Count your blessings if you have banked more than his $18 million. He won four times on the PGA Tour in a span of four years and in 2015 was 16th in the world rankings.

A later in life introduction to playing the game of golf morphed into an interest in club making around 2004 for Louis Stephenson.

Wearing them as a joke would be worth the purchase price. But then I did wear them. They were dry. Dry and comfortable. Dry, comfortable and stable even on a sidehill lie in the slosh.

Petersburg, Virginia, Jan. 3, 1993. The Oilers lost to the Bills. It was neither better than nor worse than last Sunday’s Texans’ loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.

On all these topics and more, this column is in touch so you’ll be in touch.

The Tournament of Champions is first up, with Xander Schauffele the reigning champion. The Sony Open is Jan. 9-12 (Matt Kuchar) is next, and then the old guys on the Champions Tour tee up Jan. 16-18 for the Mitsubishi Electric Championship, where defending titleholder Tom Lehman is sure to wear a flowered shirt.

Willie Nelson sang about being half off the wall (but he learned it all in the Navy). Willie is a golfer. and I think he would appreciate my idea of half off the wall gifts for golfers.

Santa Claus is surely going to reward area high school golfers for their efforts this fall; as they head toward the Christmas break, visions of sugar plums, eagles and birdies are surely dancing in their heads. And maybe a new driver or putter.

After a mere 25 years as the driving force behind the Meals on Wheels annual fundraiser at the Galveston Country Club, the event has been renamed “The Reverend Ray Pinard Golf Tournament.”

The weather has lately been sometimes frightful and well, baby, cold outside; but on some days it has ranged from San Diego-like to just plain delightful.

A pair of senseless (aren’t they all) triple bogeys gave me an early case of golf mumbles last Sunday. I was feeling pretty low about my score as I settled in for the Texans versus the Ravens. Things would get worse.

League City’s Mike Standly was among more than 100 golfers who teed up at last week’s Lone Star NGL Texas Senior Open at Eagle Pointe Golf Course in Mont Belvieu.